Imagine that you are Richard Wright and you've grown up with the life that he describes in this book.

好了，大家想像，自己是理查,经历过他经历的一切。

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By becoming a poet for all sorts and kinds, Frost intends, as he says, to arrive "where I can stand on my legs as a poet and nothing else..."

通过成为所有类型的人的诗人，他想像他说的,“在他站立的地方都被尊称为诗人而不是其他“

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So if the landscape invites him to grow as an imaginative person, the social world he lives in, this episode signals to us immediately, will never live up to that imagination.

假如生活氛围使他,成为一个充满想像力的人，那么他所处的社会就是这一时期，这会让我们马上感到，那种想象永不可能成真。

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I don't think it's inconceivable he's also justifying colonization as well.

也就不难想像他会为殖民化辩护。

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And you could never imagine that he would be somebody that people would listen to on the radio, hour after hour, because that's how long he talked; or that when Stauffenberg tries to kill him in 1944 the Germans would pour out of the-- into the street to thank god for saving the Fuhrer.

你根本就无法想像人们会在,收音机上听他讲话,听好几个小时,因为他讲话就讲那么长时间,或者在1944年,史陶芬博格想要刺杀他的时候德国人会冲到,到大街上感谢上帝拯救他们的元首

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